The film programme of DOK.fest München. At the cinema. At home.

3 to 14 May 2023 at the Munich venues
8 to 21 May 2023 @home

As always, DOK.fest München opens the view out to the world: with 130 of the best and most current international documentaries from 55 countries. Our goal is the greatest possible participation in our films, which is why we bring them to the big screen in Munich cinemas as well as to home screens throughout Germany: DOK.fest stays dual.

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THE WHALE AND THE RAVEN (Canada, Germany 2019, Mirjam Leuze, DOK.international Main Competition). The remaining residents of the First Nation settlement on Canada’s rough west coast have a profound relationship with nature, in particular whales. Two researchers, Janie Wray and Hermann Meuter, share the spirituality of the indigenous people. A moving filmic message from whales to humans.

#North America, #Cinema at its best!, #For Cinephiles, #The future of the planet

MASTER OF DISASTER (Germany, Switzerland 2019, Jörg Haaßengier, Jürgen Brügger, DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb). The sirens blare out; a catastrophe is rehearsed. Hyperreal practice-runs, planning exercises and simulations give rise to the disturbing dystopia of emergency. The film of the hour: thrilling, complex and alarming.

#The future of the planet

AUS LIEBE ZUM ÜBERLEBEN (Germany 2019, Bertram Verhaag, Munich Premieres). An agriculture that does without poisons and monocultural excesses? Munich director Bertram Verhaag shows eight farmers who have devoted themselves with courage and passion to a different kind of agriculture: Out of respect for nature.

#The future of the planet

CHASING THE THUNDER (United States 2018, Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin, DOK.special). For 110 days and over 10,000 nautical miles, we accompany the environmental activists from Sea Sheperd on an epic chase across the Antarctic seas. Their mission: to find the poacher ship, Thunder, detain it and escort it to Australia.

#Cinema at its best!, #The future of the planet

DIE ROTE LINIE – WIDERSTAND IM HAMBACHER FORST (Germany 2019, Karin de Miguel Wessendorf, DOK.focus humaNature). Germany can only meet its climate targets if it shuts down its lignite-fired power plants. But the energy company RWE wants to continue mining lignite in the Rhineland. Tree squatters, citizens' initiatives, mothers, fathers and church groups mobilize: Resistance in the Hambach forest!

#Critics and Visionaries, #Cinema at its best!, #The future of the planet

LOSING ALASKA (Czech Republic, Netherlands, United Kingdom 2018, Tom Burke, DOK.focus humaNature). While Trump casts doubt on climate change, in Alaska, as the permafrost melts at an ever-increasing rate, a town is sinking into the sea. Forgotten by the rest of America, the Yupik in their corrugated metal huts are seeing their community disintegrate.

#North America, #The future of the planet

SEA OF SHADOWS (Austria, United States 2018, Richard Ladkani, DOK.focus humaNature). In the Golf of California in Mexico, there is a creeping ecological catastrophe: illegal fishing methods are threatening the entirety of the region’s maritime life. In a spectacular rescue action, journalists, scientists, conservationists and undercover agents try to stop the killing.

#The future of the planet

HONEYLAND (Macedonia 2019, Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, BEST OF FESTS). 55-year-old Hatidze is one of Europe’s last wild bee hunters. The Macedonian lives a solitary life in harmony with nature. A touching portrait in breathtakingly beautiful images.

#The future of the planet

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